Yes
Yes. As former chair of the Zoning Committee during the Washington administration my experience leads me to believe that we need to use city authority much more aggressively to address housing issues. There is a special need in the current economic climate as a result of
the bursting of the housing bubble and the misdeeds of some sectors of the housing industry both before and after the crisis erupted.
Yes
In addition, as mayor I will use the leverage of City investments to ensure that banks that do business with the City to do more to work with homeowners in foreclosure so they can keep their
homes. I will also seek to ensure that vacant, foreclosed homes owned by banks and investors are better secured and maintained by them to help stave off further neighborhood decline and threats to public safety.
Yes
Yes